Programming 8-bit PIC Microcontrollers in C

Introduction

The book is organized in five parts. Part 1 includes an overview of the PIC microcontroller internal architecture, describing the features of the 16F877A specifically. This chip is often used as representative of the 16 series MCUs because it has a full range of peripheral interfaces. All 16 series chips have a common program execution core, with variation mainly in the size of program and data memory. During programming, certain operational features are configurable: type of clock circuit, watchdog timer enable, reset mechanisms, and so on. Internal features include the file register system, which contains the control registers and RAM block, and a nonvolatile EEPROM block. The parallel ports provide the default I/O for the MCU, ...